Matrilineal Line for Saturday Night Fun

List your matrilineal line – your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you!

Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which Haplogroup you are in.

Post your responses on your own blog post, in Comments to this blog post, or in a Note or status line on Facebook.

Here’s my matrilineal line:

Kay Bauman nee Brown — me

Donna Brown nee Willis — living

Virginia Amy Willis Billings nee Lineberry — 1914-2007

Eva Lineberry Fox nee Keithley — 1883 – 1922

Martha Ann Keithley nee Conn (perhaps) — ca 1856 – ca 1890

We know very little beyond my grandmother Virginia because the previous generations of mothers died when their children were quite young. Virginia was 7 when her mother, Eva, died. Eva was about 6 when her mother, Martha, died. Thankfully, my grandmother had older siblings who shared things about their mother plus my grandmother remembered many things about her mother. Unfortunately, Eva was the the second oldest of her mother’s children and no memories, not even names were passed on to her children (that we’ve discovered). We’ve been told that Martha was Irish and that she died about 1890 after the birth of her last child.

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Delving into family stories, documents and photos is what I enjoy! Relative Storyboard: capturing family memories, is my blog where I share and encourage discussion about my findings. Often I only have tidbits of information that I piece together in hopes that one day I'll have a more complete storyboard.
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